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Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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things I hate:

"Click me to try now!" banners that lead to a warning screen that says "Oh, only paying members, whoops!"

So, you don't mean 'try this out', you mean 'buy this product'.

Let's not act like it's a free sampler.

I can't comment on the model : i'm not giving them money.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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post #3

things I hate: "Click me to try now!" banners that lead to a warning screen that says "Oh, only paying members, whoops!" So, you don't mean 'try this out', you mean 'buy this product'. Let's not act like it's a free sampler. I can't comment on the model : i'm not giving them money.

You can try it on HF: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-Realtim...

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There's no comparison to Whisper Large v3 or other Whisper models.. Is it better? Worse? Why do they only compare to gpt4o mini transcribe?

Gpt4o mini transcribe is better and actually realtime. Whisper is trained to encode the entire audio (or at least 30s chunks) and then decode it.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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> At approximately 4% word error rate on FLEURS and $0.003/min Amazons transcription service is $0.024 per minute, pretty big difference https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/pricing/

Is it 0.003 per minute of audio uploaded, or "compute minute"?

For example fal.ai has a Whisper API endpoint priced at "$0.00125 per compute second" which (at 10-25x realtime) is EXTREMELY cheaper than all the competitors.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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post #5

There's no comparison to Whisper Large v3 or other Whisper models.. Is it better? Worse? Why do they only compare to gpt4o mini transcribe?

Gpt4o mini transcribe is better and actually realtime. Whisper is trained to encode the entire audio (or at least 30s chunks) and then decode it.

The linked article claims the average word error rate for Voxtral mini v2 is lower than GPT-4o mini transcribe
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